Sophocles Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I like the facts. I find them interesting.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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Better not to exist than live basely.
